Teenager shot in St. Petersburg's Childs Park

News Channel 8 photo by JIM FARQUHAR

The victim was transported to Bayfront Medical Center as a trauma alert.

By TBO.com
Published: April 21, 2009

St. Petersburg police are investigating the shooting of a 16-year-old boy near Childs Park Recreation Center.

The teenager was discovered in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to his upper body when police responded about 8:45 p.m. to a report of shots fired at the park, 4301 13th Ave. S. He is at Bayfront Medical Center; his condition was not immediately available late Tuesday.

Police say a group of teenagers and young adults were part of an "informal gathering'' in the parking lot outside the recreation center when a fight broke out and shots were fired.